I have someone I regularly get political oriented Emails from, and many of those Emails purport to be from nameless sources, or sometimes from falsely named sources.
When the content contains images of any kind, I go looking on the Internet for those images.
Sometimes my search is no more difficult than searching on the title that was given in the Email.
Frequently I find that the whole thing has been created as an Email by someone lifting the entire content of someone’s website, or an entry on that website, pasting it into an Email and sending back out into the Email distribution world - from one set of addressees to each of their set of addressees - as if it is all “anonymous”.
I call it theft and when I discover it I reply back to my Email source, giving them the actual original Internet source from where the whole thing came, and suggest that they send my response back through the chain of senders it came from - hoping the theieves start to get the message.
If I find something interesting on the Internet that I want to share with people who are in my Email contact list, I send out an Email that simply has a link/url to the Internet source I think they ought to see.
I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and when we don’t, when we steal the work product of someone else and refuse to give them even mere attribution for it, that it is theft and betrays the kinds of principles we Conservatives care about.
Humblegunner,
In full disclosure, I used to be a contributor to the site, but I have not in a long time (several months). I also don’t think I am a spammer, as read here way more than I post.
Are you familiar with Pinterest? If so then you should know that every image is back linked to the original source. While I agree that claiming another’s content as your own would be stealing, the model of Pinterest where users share pictures they find on the internet onto pin boards with links back to the original content is not stealing. From what I can tell each picture on this site links back to the original source where it was found. So in that vein it is essentially a Pinterest like site dedicated to anti-liberal pictures. This would be the same as creating a pin board on Pinterest and positing there right.
BTW, I doubt the content owners dislike the hits their site gets from back links from Pinterest, but if they did, they can always ask that the content be removed.
I appreciate your comments, and honest assessment. I wasn’t trying to cause a ruckus.
Cheers, Zantus